One of the slogans that was bandied around by the hippies in the early 1970s, at the height of protests against the Vietnam War was "Make Love, Not War!". This adaptation of mine came as I got to realize that some war torn areas and regions actually produced some interesting wines. Take Champagne for example, which was the site of a lot of trench warfare during WWI. I first learnt about it when a classmate from medical school went cycling in Champagne to visit the WWI battlefields. Alsace changed hands many times between France and Germany that its wines could be considered as French versions of German wines!
Apart from battlegrounds which are famous wine producing areas, we can also find a battle site where both sides of the conflict produce interesting wines of some quality. I am referring to the Bekaa Valley and the fact that both Lebanon and Israel makes quite good wines. I had already blogged about Chateau Musar, Chateau Kefraya and also mentioned Chateau Ksara obliquely in another post - thus covering the 3 most famous Lebanese wineries. As for Israel, there are quite a number of famous wineries, but I don't seemed to have covered them yet in this blog. Anyhow, that is a theme with which I can organize a wine dinner that is slightly off the beaten track.
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